Can I restore my address book info from a backed user file app support?

My hard drive crashed, no data recovered. I had my user file backed up to an ExHD. New HD installed, put Leopard on it. Is there a way I can restore my contacts to my Address Book through my backed up user file on my ExHD? I can not locate an actual archive file of the address book.

If you were using the same version of Mac OS X on both drives (10.5 to 10.5, 10.4 to 10.4, etc), then you only need to move a copy of the Home/Library/Mail folder from the backup and replace the existing Home/Library/Mail folder on the new HD with it.
Be sure that Mail is not running when you do this.
Mulder

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